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It's Monday, the aftermath of Sunday night football, October 2nd.

We're into October here, people.

I'm Jamie Erdall.

There's Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, Jason McCordy. Kyle, October football. Hit different? Yes, it's different. The warm-up month is over. We found out some things yesterday about some teams that maybe aren't who we thought they were. Peter and I drank some buffalo sauce and Pepsi earlier in the show because Josh Allen did it. And I'm enjoying it later in different waves. It's coming back up and I don't mind it and going right back down. Mine are not sitting well. What's matter? I would not enjoy it. My stomach did not take to it. We might have different stomachs and different lines. What's that Kobe mean? We're just soft. Soft. Soft. Soft. Soft. Different palette. Soft like sharp. Different chalons. Needs some charm. But here's the thing. We have to each pick a statement win, statement game, statement whatever you want to make of it, Peter. Who was your statement situation from yesterday? We haven't talked much about the Ravens this morning. I know that it wasn't Deshawn Watson, and I know it's not Nick Chubb back there, but But what the Browns have done the past two weeks with their defense and the number one ranked defense, to see what the Ravens could do physically move around that Brown's defense and move the ball up and down. And then on defense, just absolutely suffocate a rookie quarterback and say, this is not the preseason, pal. This is how it's going to go. Mike McDonald is the defensive coordinator of the Ravens. I think this guy is one of the brightest stars in the league as far as coaching candidates go, 37 years old. And once again, his defense came in here with an undermanned unit and absolutely dominated the Browns. AFC North is wide open. The Bengals aren't what we thought they would be with Burrow-Hurt.

Steelers are now without Pickett, and even with Pickett, didn't look apart.

And the Browns, we were ready to crown the Browns last week after their dominant victory.

But here the Ravens are, just steady-eddy, no matter who's on the field for them,

they've got injuries all over the place, they find a way.

I feel like the AFC North, we started this season. We're saying this is the best division in football, top to bottom. You could stack it any way you want. We're a month in. Injuries have ravaged all four teams. And I feel like the Ravens have been as ravaged as anyone, and yet they're the one standing tall. And they held that Brown's offense to 166 yards of total offense yesterday. Their defense was flying all over the place. Roquan Smith looks like he's an all-pro this year. Patrick Queen was even getting tweeted about by LeBron James. Yeah. This Ravens team not going to be the one that everyone talks about this morning because it happened and it was a blowout and it wasn't with DeShon Watson.

But that was a statement to the rest of the league.

Don't come soft with us and we'll go into your building.

We'll push you around.

LeBron's sweet about Patrick Quinn. Patrick Queen. King and Queen, right? It's witty. It's cute. Very witty. How you're here? It's good. It's so good. My statement came from the New England Patriots.

This statement is like, this ain't it.

We're not good.

I don't think we're gonna be good.

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